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May 9 , 2020

US Grants $37m to Combat COVID-19

The United States has donated 37 million dollars to Ethiopia to help the country mitigate the potential spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The funding will be used to ensure continued oper...

May 9 , 2020

LINEUP FOR COVID-19

Commercial banks have employed various ways of responding to the threat of COVID-19 caused by the larger number of people that visit any branch office a day. Many implore their clients to wash their h...

May 2 , 2020

COVID-19 Jeopardises Small Businesses' Daily Bread

The roads leading down to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) compound, down Menelik II Avenue, are usually so packed with cars that finding a parking spot during the day is alm...

May 2 , 2020

Ethiopia's Readiness for COVID-19 Ranks Low: Report

The United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) latest report, "COVID-19 Human Development, Exploring Global Preparedness & Vulnerability," demonstrates that the impact of the Novel Coronavirus...

May 1 , 2020

Averting the COVID-19 Security Crisis in Africa

Some have described the COVID-19 crisis as a “great equaliser.” After all, it has invaded the world's richest economies, with the virus infecting some of their most prominent figures, from politic...

May 1 , 2020

The Lasting Impact of COVID-19: Strong State

Every major incident leaves behind an impact that far outlives it. A century ago, Ethiopia was hit by the Spanish Flu, a respiratory illness that is estimated to have taken the lives of 50 million peo...

May 2 , 2020

Crisis Looms Large but We Mustn’t Forfeit Constitutionality, Strong State

Ever since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, it has become a worldwide emergency. There is hardly any strand of life...

May 1 , 2020

IMF Approves $411m in Emergency Assistance

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assented to 411 million dollars under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to address urgent balance of payments pressure and create fi...

Apr 25 , 2020

With Ingenuity, We Shall Overcome the COVID-19 Crisis

As the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. In essence, the saying points to how problems encountered can pave the path to creative, adaptive and deep changes that meet the needs of...

Apr 25 , 2020

Did We Beat COVID-19?

On March 13, 2020, the first case of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was confirmed in Ethiopia. It was not welcome news. For weeks before then, the disease had been ravaging Europe, with the number o...

Apr 25 , 2020

COVID-19: the Social, the Spiritual and the Illness

In the plagues of yesteryear, epidemics were equated and explained by social and spiritual phenomena. As the treatment for pandemics entered the "medical model," the persecution and elimination of the...

Apr 17 , 2020

COVID-19 Casts a Shadow Over Easter Market

On the afternoon of April 15, 2020, Semien Shola, a marketplace near Semen Mazegaga known for selling chickens and eggs, was not as crowded as it typically is. During holidays, the place is normally j...

Apr 17 , 2020

Habesha Steel to Feed Victims of COVID-19

Habesha Steel Mills, a firm owned by an Indian businessperson, has pledged to feed 500 people who have lost jobs due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) twice a day. The company also made a 15 million...

Apr 17 , 2020

Poultry Industry Catches COVID-19 Flu

For the past couple of weeks, employees of SW Poultry Farm have added an additional activity to their daily routine of breeding chickens and selling them to farm owners who grow them for meat or egg p...

Apr 17 , 2020

Tech Savvy Firm Crafts Close Contact Detector App

The year 2020 has welcomed the world with the turmoil of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which started in China and has spread rapidly across the world. All the New Year's resolutions, expectatio...

Apr 17 , 2020

COVID-19 Strains Fragile Drug Supply Chain

When it was first reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, the last day of last year, no one gave any attention to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread rapidly and bee...


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